. >> warner: now glenn, meanwhile let's turn to president obama. because you all document in the book that his handlers, his vitzers had serious concerns about his performance even before the first debate. explain. >> to me this is the most fascinating reporting that we did, or i did in the book. early in the summer, actually late in the summer in august, his campaign produced a document, a strategic document, sort of a bible for how he was going to proceed against romney in the first debate in denver. and what they advised him to do was to be as aggressive as possible, and to call romney on some of the contradiction in his record. well wa, happened in september, the 47% video surfaced and obama's senior advisors particularly david axelrod and anita dunn advised him to back off a little bit, look a little more presidentialment don't take those kinds of caustic shots at romney. and what resulted, what i learned through my reporting was that the handlers weren't just up set with obama, obama was really up set with them. he felt that at some point in